THE SOONSOO AC Control Lotion

What is this product?

THE SOONSOO AC Control Lotion is a 150 ml light lotion for acne-prone skin built around niacinamide at position 4 and acetyl glucosamine at 5 of a 31-entry label, with a twelve-extract plant and mushroom tail and peppermint oil last. Its label prints no fragrance entry and no ethanol entry, which suits oily, blemish-prone skin that dislikes stinging, but the menthol-bearing oil at the end and the maker's own warning against use in pregnancy make it a patch-test product for reactive skin. The brand's results graphics are weak evidence: the percentages are undefined and the whitehead chart's bars do not match their labels. The brightening functional wording has no matching row on the notice table.

What makes it different?

Placement and evidence quality separate it. Niacinamide fourth and acetyl glucosamine fifth of 31 is a real dose position for the pair that oil control and tone run on, the emulsifier pair is an olive-derived nonionic one, and the list carries no fragrance, ethanol, silicone, PEG, paraben or sulfate entry. Against that, the efficacy graphics printed with it cannot be checked: the 100 percent figures have no definition, the chart's bars draw a fall more than twice the labelled one, and the functional wording has no notice-table row. The list itself is read from the brand's own detail image and not from page text, and no amount is disclosed for any entry.

What is in it?

The full ingredient list as the brand publishes it, in the printed order. Each name links to what we know about that ingredient.

This brand publishes its ingredient list in Korean only. Names below are the matching INCI names from the Korean Cosmetic Association ingredient dictionary, except 2 with no dictionary entry, left in Korean.

Key ingredientWorth a closer look

• Water
• Propanediol
• Octyldodecanol
• Niacinamide
• Acetyl Glucosamine
• Cetearyl Olivate
• 소르비탄올리베이트
• Betaine
• Carpinus Tschonoskii Leaf Extract
• Quercus Mongolica Leaf Extract
• Bambusa Vulgaris Sap Extract
• Anthemis Nobilis Flower Extract
• Glycyrrhiza Uralensis (Licorice) Root Extract
• Centella Asiatica Extract
• Portulaca Oleracea Extract
• Cordyceps Sinensis Extract
• Trametes Versicolor Extract
• Sodium Hyaluronate
• Allantoin
• Heptyl Undecylenate
• Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate
• Glyceryl Caprylate
• 1,2-Hexanediol
• Ethylhexylglycerin
• Sodium Phytate
• Usnea Barbata (Lichen) Extract
• Zanthoxylum Piperitum Fruit Extract
• Pulsatilla Koreana Extract
• 포타슘카보머
• Butylene Glycol
• Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil

Ingredients with no mark are ones we found nothing notable about, and when marks overlap on one ingredient we show the caution first.

Did the ad claims hold up?

We checked 25 lines this product advertises against the ingredient list and public documents. Here is how they read: backed by evidence: 1 · likely, not proven: 1 · partly backed: 8 · overstated ad line: 3 · no source confirms it: 11 · says nothing: 1.

Claims translated from Korean, originals preserved.

Each line is quoted as the brand published it, and each one was read on its own against the ingredient list and the documents the brand publishes.

How we read these lines

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